my english class is reading the book Please Stop Laughing At Me. I find this book to be verryy interesting because the author is writing this book about herself when she was in school. All the stuff I have read so far just totally hits me. It makes me wonder why people would do such stuff to someone just because they're different. I'm a freshman in highschool and i've seen some pretty bad stuff.
What do you think about this book?
When you're at school/when you were still in school, did you personally experience anything like what happens in the book, or have you seen it happen to someone else?

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It's a deep and sad subject, I haven't read the book but these things are usually pretty predictable...
I know a few people who never even finished school because of fear of harassment, it all starts when the chasms separating teacher from student, and school from learning become too deep and wide to traverse.

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wow..thats sadd.

I read it a few years ago, and I don't quite think that it made the kind of impression on me that the author wanted it to.

It's a sad story, yes. But Jodee makes herself out to be some kind of martyr. She never questions why she wanted so desperately to hang out with those kids, or why she kept going back. Rather than examining why she continuously put herself in such horrible situations, or what could have made her peers react in such ways, she acts like she was completely and absolutely undeserving of everything that happened to her. There's no doubt in my mind that she didn't deserve that kind of treatment, but there were countless things she could have done to prevent it. (Assertion, for one.) But I don't think that she ever realized this.

It's a one sided story. Jodee tells everything she knows, but I don't think that she ever realized her own limitations, which makes the writing very two dimensional. I've always been curious how her peers would have reacted to this book, or if any of them tried to contact her afterwards. I bet that would make the story much more interesting.

yeah, I understand what you mean. It was almost as if she was oblivious to what she was doing to herself. she kind of naïve...in a way i guess.